Welcome to WEAVE

Motivated by the vision of a world where women and their children are free to excercise their human rights, WEAVE is committed to teaching women to become socially, economically and politically empowered.

WEAVE (Women's Education for Advancement and Empowerment) was founded in 1990, with the intent to empower indigenous women and support their needs and basic human rights. The organization has evolved over the years, especially in the context of the influx of refugees from Burma.

In 1994, WEAVE developed a partnership with refugee women's organizations. This lead to changes in our mission to reflect the organizations new thrust and direction. Read more »

Livelihood Project Assistant, Women’s Capacity Development Project

Location: Mae Sot, Thailand

Application Deadline: No later than 22 February, 2010.

Job Starting Date: 15 March, 2010.

General functions and responsibilities:

• Provide Support to the Women’s Capacity Development Training Officer in all aspects of training preparation and implementation.
• Provide translation support for both written and oral communication.
• Assists WEAVE partner organizations in concretizing partnership thrusts on training and education,  and networking.
• Provide support in coordinating and networking with other women groups;
• As a member of WEAVE team, to work effectively as part of a small staff for program development, and to undertake specific additional responsibilities as may be agreed with the Line Manager.

Click Here: Request Details Job Description

How To Apply
If you think you have the necessary qualifications and experience required for the position, and would like to apply for the job, please send:

1. A letter of application in English, Burmese, or Thai.
2. Your CV or resume giving details of your qualifications and experience.
3. Photocopy of Thai ID card or Passport, and Transcript of Records from school
4. The name and contact details of 3 references (people who have known you in your working environment).

Applications may be sent by e-mail, fax or mail to:

Aunty Nancy,
Personnel Administrator
WEAVE
PO Box 58, Chiang Mai University,
Chiang Mai 50202
Email: anancy@weave-women.org
Kindly “cc:” your application to: mitos@weave-women.org

NOTE: Only short listed candidates will be notified for interview.

WEAVE welcomes applicants from women ethnic minority communities and gives preference in hiring them.

Women Education Project Officer

Location: Mae Hong Son, Thailand

Application Deadline: No later than 22 February,2010 .

Job Starting Date: 15 March, 2010.

General functions and responsibilities:

• Work in cooperation with the project teams to effectively plan, coordinate and implement WEAVE’s Women’s Education Project  with Karenni National Women’s Organization and Karen Women’s Education;
• Lead in the coordination of field activities and work with various key players (community based organizations and INGO’s) in advancing women’s development work;
• Support the project management team in carrying out work under the Women’s Study Program  and the Basic Literacy Class (English);
• Support in the development of the course curriculum, educational manual as well as development of local project implementers such as the teachers and trainers;
• Provide support in coordinating and networking with other women groups;
• Assist in representing WEAVE to appropriate meetings.
• As a member of WEAVE team, to work effectively as part of a small staff for program development, and to undertake specific additional responsibilities as may be agreed with the Line Manager.

Click Here: Request Details Job Description

How To Apply
If you think you have the necessary qualifications and experience required for the position, and would like to apply for the job, please send:

1. A letter of application in English, Burmese, or Thai.
2. Your CV or resume giving details of your qualifications and experience.
3. Photocopy of Thai ID card or Passport, and Transcript of Records from school
4. The name and contact details of 3 references (people who have known you in your working environment).

Applications may be sent by e-mail, fax or mail to:

Nancy Wah
WEAVE
P.O. Box 58
Chiang Mai University,
Chiang Mai 50202
Email: anancy@weave-women.org; weave@weave-women.org
Kindly “cc:” your application to: mitos@weave-women.org; rollie_17@yahoo.com; jovy@weave-women.org

NOTE: Only short listed candidates will be notified for interview.

WEAVE welcomes applicants from women ethnic minority communities and gives preference in hiring them.

Early Childhood Development (ECD) Project Officer/Field Officer

Location: Mae Hong Son, Thailand

Application Deadline: No later than 22 February,2010 .

Job Starting Date: 15 March, 2010.

General functions and responsibilities:

• Works in cooperation with the project teams to effectively plan, coordinate and implement WEAVE’s Early Childhood Development Project.
• Takes the lead in coordinating with other WEAVE’s Projects and Partner Organizations in the development of ECCD materials.
• Coordinate with the Training Coordinator and supports the project team in the development of the training schedule.
• Assist the Training Coordinator in preparing proposal for fund raising
• Provides support in coordinating and networking with partner women groups and other organizations.
• Assists in representing WEAVE to appropriate meetings.
• As a member of WEAVE team, must work effectively and to undertake specific additional responsibilities as may be agreed with the Director.

Click Here: Request Details Job Description

How To Apply
If you think you have the necessary qualifications and experience required for the position, and would like to apply for the job, please send:

1. A letter of application in English, Burmese, or Thai.
2. Your CV or resume giving details of your qualifications and experience.
3. Photocopy of Thai ID card or Passport, and Transcript of Records from school
4. The name and contact details of 3 references (people who have known you in your working environment).

Applications may be sent by e-mail, fax or mail to:

Aunty Nancy,
WEAVE
P.O. Box 58
Chiang Mai University,
Chiang Mai 50202
Email: anancy@weave-women.org,
Kindly “cc:” your application to: mitos@weave-women.org; jovy@weave-women.org.

NOTE: Only short listed candidates will be notified for interview.

WEAVE welcomes applicants from women ethnic minority communities and gives preference in hiring them. Qualified men are also welcome to apply.

The November edition of the WEAVE E-Newsletter is now available online. Read it here.

The October edition of the WEAVE E-Newsletter is now available online. Read it here.

The September edition of the WEAVE E-Newsletter is now available online. Read it here.

The August edition of the WEAVE E-Newsletter is now available online. Read it here.

Chiang Mai September 2009  WEAVE, in collaboration with its local partners composed mainly of displaced and refugee women on the Thai-Burma borders, has developed a project that will provide safe employment, promote production and marketing of locally-produced handicrafts, improve food security and reduce dependency on refugee ration.

WEAVE’s coordinated project which is entitled, Together Responding to Economic Advancement and Development (TREAD), is now looking for kindred individuals or organizations as partners in pursuing this venture which will contribute to the development of safe employment through livelihood activities as a stated goal of WEAVE and as identified in the CCSDPT-UNCHR Comprehensive Plan.

The project aims to establish a Resource Centre that will cater for ongoing and potential small-scale businesses. The centre will be manned by skilled Business Development Specialists, who will work closely with individuals and groups in the provision of skills training, production, micro-finance and marketing, to nurture their skills and development at every stage of the business towards the achievement of their dreams and aspirations. The centre, where a library of resource materials will be made available, shall provide regular professional advice on a wide range of areas such as product packaging, pricing, customer related services and marketing. Series of formal and non-formal trainings will also be conducted for the staff and its partner organizations.

Project partners and beneficiaries, largely women, will have access to economic and financial literacy training which will be provided by the centre. The idea is that individuals, through the centre, shall have been able to gain basic financial management skills enabling them to manage their household income better and to invest towards the attainment of their social, economic and financial goals.

Presently, WEAVE in collaboration with Thai Tribal Craft (TTC), an agency which provides opportunities to improve the quality of life of tribal people in Northern Thailand, manages a Fair Trade Shop located in Mae Sot, Tak Province Thailand. This is a partnership aimed at providing a venue to market the handicrafts produced both by the refugee and hill-tribe women.

For Karen people who live in temporary shelters (refugee camps) on the Thai-Burma borders for the last 20 years, life can be very hard. The everyday challenges of poverty and life as a refugee are compounded by a number of other problems, including over-crowding, poor nutrition and sanitation, lack of economic opportunity, inability to work outside the refugee camps, and a highly competitive labour market. However, in the 3 Karen refugee camps in Tak and Mae Hong Son Provinces, change is taking place as a result of the support extended by Women’s Education for Advancement and Empowerment (WEAVE).

The Income Generation Project, which began in late 1990s, works directly with over 300 refugee women artisans (currently approximately 150 women) in the design and development of beautifully hand-woven crafts and provides regular safe income. WEAVE being a member of Fair-Trade Federation, ensures that women are protected from labor exploitation and exposure to protection risks.

The project is steering funds and opportunities toward initiatives that refugee women project participants deem most important, such as community savings, as contribution to community development activities and special celebrations, health assistance, mortuary contribution. The project also conducts on the-job-training that is linked to textile-handicraft industry (weaving, sewing and embroidery). In 2006, the project started to support poor women’s organizations by contributing to innovative small business development activities through its alternative livelihood component such as vegetable growing, dried fish production (food processing) and jewelry making (pearl), to mention a few.

Since the onset of the project, the women project participants are involved in the decision making process on what needs to be done. The project realizes that it is very important to link human development efforts to local community structures in order to ensure its sustainability and long-term viability. For the most vulnerable women, the project is translating into more work opportunities, a better living environment and steadier start to life despite the challenges they face as refugees/displaced persons.

The July edition of the WEAVE E-Newsletter is now available online. Read it Here.

The July edition of the WEAVE E-Newsletter is now available online. Read it here.

The May edition of the WEAVE E-Newsletter is now available online. Read it here.

The March edition of the WEAVE E-Newsletter is now available online. Read it here.

WEAVE is happy to announce that its regular E-Newsletter is now available online. If you have not seen it before, why not have a look at the December and November 2008 editions. The next edition will be coming soon!

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A new partnership between Women’s Education for Advancement and Empowerment (WEAVE) and Thai Tribal Crafts (TTC) will be celebrated with the official launch of a new, shared, Fair Trade Shop, at 5pm, 19 February 2009, in Mae Sot, Tak Province, Thailand.

An array of beautifully handcrafted, traditional, Karen textile products will be on show and for sale at the opening, including woven and embroidered clothing, sarongs and scarves, blankets, table runners, place mat sets, utensil holders, bags, wallets and coin purses, wall hangings, and a range of Karen natural dye products.

The Fair Trade shop will provide not only an exciting retail outlet in Mae Sot town, but an important collective marketing space for refugee and tribal women. If you are in Mae Sot on 19 February, please join WEAVE and TTC on this special occasion, or visit our online catalogue to view WEAVE’s amazing products. Be a part of this significant opportunity to support the marginalized women in changing and improving their lives!

The WEAVE / TTC partnership, which was envisioned more than two years ago, was forged in 2008 to address the common vision of providing development opportunities for women in Thailand and along the Thai-Burma borders.

Founded in 1990, WEAVE works to empower vulnerable and marginalized Burmese women, and to support their needs and basic human rights. Its commitment is to enable them to become socially, economically and politically empowered.

TTC was established in 1973 and is sponsored by the Christian Service Foundation (Baptist), which aims to provide opportunities to improve the quality of life of tribal people in Northern Thailand.

Both WEAVE and TTC are members of the Fair Trade Federation and as such, are committed to:

fair wages in the local context;

environmental sustainability;

respecting cultural identity;

building direct and long-term relationships;

providing financial and technical assistance;

educating consumers about Fair Trade; and

public accountability and transparency.

For more information, please email: handicrafts@weave-women.org.